 /*******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.ui.browser;

 import org.eclipse.ui.browser.IWebBrowser;
 /**
  * Implementators of <code>org.eclipse.ui.browser.browsers</code> extension
  * points must provide an implementation of this abstract class.
  *
  * @since 3.1
  */
 public abstract class BrowserFactory {
     /**
      * Checks whether the factory can work on the user system.
      *
      * @return <code>false</code> if the factory can work on this system; for
      * example the required native browser required by browser adapters that
      * it creates is not installed, or <code>true</code> otherwise
      */
     public boolean isAvailable() {
         return true;
     }

     /**
      * Obtains a new instance of a web browser.
      *
      * @param id the browser id
      * @param location the browser location
      * @param parameters the browser parameters
      * @return an instance of IWebBrowser
      */
     public abstract IWebBrowser createBrowser(String id, String location, String parameters);
 }
